Senator Presses Bush on Interrogation Techniques

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Source: New York Times

By DAVID JOHNSTON and SCOTT SHANE
Published: October 5, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 — President Bush defended his administration’s treatment of terrorism suspects today, but the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the president of keeping Congress in the dark about how those suspects are interrogated.

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“The administration can’t have it both ways,” the senator said today. “I’m tired of these games. They can’t say that Congress has been fully briefed while refusing to turn over key documents used to justify the legality of the program. The reality is, the administration refused to disclose the program to the full Committee for five years, and they have refused to turn over key legal documents since day one.”Democrats on Capitol Hill demanded to see the classified memorandums, disclosed Thursday by The New York Times, that gave the Central Intelligence Agency expansive approval in 2005 for harsh interrogation techniques.

Senator Rockefeller wrote to the acting attorney general, Peter D. Keisler, on Thursday asking for copies of all opinions on interrogation since 2004.

“I find it unfathomable that the committee tasked with oversight of the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program would be provided more information by The New York Times than by the Department of Justice,” Mr. Rockefeller wrote.

The ranking Republican on the panel, Senator Christopher S. Bond of Missouri, said Thursday night in a statement that the committee had been briefed on the administration’s “legal justifications” for interrogation.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/washington/05cnd-torture.html

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1. one thing for sure, the Frist 109th Congress would have ignored this.

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2. Well, there ya go, KIT BOND said he was briefed...isn't that enough

for you people? Wow, why are Democrats so cynical?